Plans are moving forward to open an Asia-Pacific office of the World Jewish Congress in Australia.
The initiative, tabled at a WJC governing board meeting last week by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, will be finalized at the international Jewish organization’s plenary in Jerusalem in January.
The regional office will be expected to oversee Jewish activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
The initiative is “critically important for the region and the Jewish community,” ECAJ President Robert Goot told the Australian Jewish News.
Goot was among some 150 Jewish leaders at last week’s WJC meeting in Ashkelon, held there to show solidarity with the residents of southern Israeli towns affected by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
The ECAJ is the Australian affiliate of the Euro-Asian Congress, an affiliate of the WJC.
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